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Newspaper
Coshocton Weekly Times
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
5
A cheeky ad from the New York Racket Store promotes back to school supplies. It touts slates pencils tablets and pens with price mentions for slate pencils large pencil tablets and rubber heath. The copy links schooling with future careers and urges shoppers to visit the store window displays.
A dense sale list notes gas supplies and globes at 15 cents each, gas mantles, paper, butter ladles, wax, carpet tacks, tin cans, Mason jars, wheel hay cars, soles, wagons, milk, cups, soaps, toilet items, toilet paper, doll carts, jar rubbers, can lids, dinner plates, skirts, and other household goods with prices.
In Olentangy Park a Teocrate Village exhibit presents Ludgon islanders from the Philippine Islands over 1200 miles away. Warriors display headhunting rituals after killing a dog, while a p r a y e r s and songs accompany the celebration. Mr and Mrs Austin Leavengood welcome a baby girl Wilfred Guthrie, recovering from trypoid fever.
The Labor Day committee outlines a citywide event on September 2 at tall grounds featuring a morning parade led by the Coshoctow, Warsaw, and Roseville bands, with unions and miners forming on Chestnut and Seventh Streets. The day includes sports, aerial acts, balloon ascent, and a Court House square band concert, followed by evening dancing at Forbes hall. race entries require committee contact.
Beginning September first, Mr. Kissner will place his dredge on the Walhonding canal with a night shift, using new lighting and a syndme on the dredge. Himebaugh installs a dynamo and wiring to illuminate the dredge, enabling faster progress as the dam abutments near completion and the canal dredging nears finish.
Lincoln Neb August 27 William J Bryan replies to Taft Columbus speech calling it a straddler and not a real reformer He argues Taft lacks strong reform positions on railroads taxation and protests against government ownership while favoring injunctions and opposing arbitration and direct Senate election He notes tariff reform but doubts its practical remedies and cites Reeves to bolster his stance with conservative critique and local college notices.
West Lafayette notes Mina Rig of Port Washington spent Sunday with Rev Black at Zaneevile. The M. F. picnic at Jones grove last Thursday was pleasant. A soda on M. E. church lawn next Saturday evening. Public school will not commence here until September. Geo Weaver and Hattie Virginia of Coshocton were married at her grandfather Geo Virginia’s home here Saturday evening. Zed Evans was awarded the con
In a New York court a joint receiver appointment was made for Kapner Bros & Duga Hosiery Co mills in Zanesville Dresden and Fraze rs ville. C T Marshall of Zanmeville and Frederick C McLaughlin of New York were named receivers after a failed clothing and hosiery business left $200 in debts. The matter, tied to Rieger Kapner Altmark Co, was set for Friday before Judge Sator.
At the sixty first annual county fair, a real seven horsepower gasoline air ship, claimed to fly far if weather allows, will tour the grounds. Secretary White urges public attendance, noting the craft has made seven successful sea crossings from Coshoenion with Professor Poof Fryar and may reach 500 feet for observers.
Brief notices recall visits and gatherings around Morus Peng New Vertford and Cana Dover with names such as Mrs Cordea Haee Miss Forsythe Cambridge and Miss Kaith Everhass. A theft is reported as twenty four young chickens were stolen from Paul Lane’s chicken coop on the town’s southeastern edge. Lane organized a crew to help locate the culprits amid social visits in the area.
A temperance sermon at the Methodist church by Presiding Elder Henthorn argues about wine in the Bible. He distinguishes fermented and unfermented grape juice, cites Jewish practices, and asserts Christ made wine as unfermented grape juice. The message condemns excess and urges temperance as a moral duty.
Docket called for September term shows no cases dismissed or settled as juries start Sept 1. House party in Taleta features many attendees from city, including James Preston and Mrs. James Preston. Reform Club event draws two thousand in New Bedford. Lewisville schools open September with Canal Laws public schools, Reform club day, and band performances. local social notes mention Miss Edith McNaughten and several named residents.
A worker named Wipfeld Clow, son of a Newcomerston Pipe Works foreman, was buried at Newcomerston this afternoon after surgery. Doctors Carr of Cosheeton and Smith of Columbus, along with Goudy, Kistler and others, attended. The report contains garbled remnants of names and details.
Bayard Nebraska August reports a riotous scene as a group of women in white caps tar and feather local drunks on the streets. A law and order league forms with wives and daughters taking action amid a fierce prohibition clash. The town vows continued punishment for intoxication and broadcasts threats of repeat cleansing.
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